Teach me something new today, or random trivia......

[pawi30]

The E code for BMW cars stands for Entwicklung, the German word for development.

[TwoJ's]

In downtown Seattle, it has been 80 degrees or above for only 78 minutes in 2011... This summer is ricockulously cold.

[E30_pilot]

that dude, Deep Throat, that screwed Nixon lived in my town and died here too.

samething with the peanuts comic guy.

[jaywood]

Spending just ten minutes in strong sunlight will allow your body to make as much vitamin D as you would get from drinking two hundred glasses of milk.

[frankenbeemer]

The Earth rotates at about 1,000 miles per hour!

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

[deLeon]

The Earth rotates at about 1,000 miles per hour!

[BrewCity11]

Will it turn back to gold after you put it back into light???

[CincinnatiKid]

If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white

[Deltron Dirty30]

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

[slammin.e28]

Qwert Yuiop is a bit of internet nonsense.


The 'QWERTY' keyboard layout we see on most keyboards was developed by Christopher Latham Scholes for typewriters.

It has something to do with keeping the most used letters in the same area to make it easier to type. QWERTY just happened to end up that way, and since it makes a pronounceable "word" that's what it's called, the QWERTY keyboard.

[Julien]

The typewriter was invented by an immigrant named Qwerty Yuiop who left his name on all keyboards

Qwert Yuiop is a bit of internet nonsense.


The 'QWERTY' keyboard layout we see on most keyboards was developed by Christopher Latham Scholes for typewriters.

[z31maniac]

Teach me, R3V, teach me.

[Conki]

Where?

Haha I almost asked the same question.

Oh trivia:
The world's best-selling toy, the Rubik's cube was invented by Erno Rubik in 1974, a Hungarian inventor.

[nbio]

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

BS

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp

[MonkeyMadness]

Where?

History! ;-)